District 3's 25 best wrestlers in the last 25 years

Accomplishments: Central Dauphin has become a wrestling giant the last seven years, and no wrestler has been better than Marshall Peppelman. The Rams standout finished his four-year career with a record of 180-7 with two district titles and three state championships from 2008 to 2010. His lone state setback came as a freshman, when he lost to Middletown's Tyler Nauman in the finals. Peppelman was also a four-time Powerade and three-time Beast of the East champion.

Did you know: The most memorable matches in a wrestler's career are typically the ones in which they secure a state title. For fans that remember Marshall Peppelman, it is the 2008 state semifinals against Andrew Alton. Peppelman, a sophomore at the time, dominated the action and earned an impressive 7-3 decision over the Central Mountain sophomore. Local wrestling historians point to that bout as the best Peppelman's ever wrestled. Alton went on to secure a pair of state titles and become a four-time PIAA medalist, but he wasn't in Peppelman's league that day.

Why here: Aside from No. 1 and No. 2 on the list, Marshall Peppelman is the most dominant wrestler I have seen. He was technically sound and showed power in the way he negotiated his opponents around the mat. Peppelman may come across as a tech fall guy with his classic dump for a takedown, but he looked for the pin and, in most cases, got it. The numbers tell the rest of the story. Peppelman has 180 wins, was a state runner-up as a freshman, earned three state titles and bagged tournament victories in the most prestigious events on the east coast. Sure, Peppelman only has two district titles, but he gets the nod in this spot because of the weight classes and competition he faced. Peppelman was the total package, and he will go down as one of the best District 3 wrestlers in history.

What they said: “As a wrestler, Marshall did whatever it took to win a match and that usually worked out. He could be a little unorthodox. He wasn't a classic wrestler in a lot of regards, but he was a classic winner. One of the great things about Marshall was that not only was he the key building block to Central Dauphin's team success, he was every bit the team wrestler and didn't play the star when it came to that.” — Rod Frisco, former lead wrestling writer for The Patriot-News.

(Agree or disagree, take the interactive poll. Leave any additional thoughts in the comments section below the story. Special thanks to Rod Frisco and Jim Carlson for help with this series, as well as Tom Elling's Pennsylvania Wrestling Handbook, which has been an instrumental tool in gathering statistics for this project).